Ynet -
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Sunday Times says Jewish state plans to deploy three submarines equipped with nuclear cruise missiles in Persian Gulf. According to report, decision has been taken to ensure permanent presence of at least one of vessels
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Rebecca Anna Stoil - Jerusalem Post - Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin warned Monday that stripping Arab MKs of their parliamentary immunity over their visit to Libya would set a dangerous precedent that could be later used against right-wing MKs as well.

Edmund Sanders - Los Angeles Times - Knesset member Ahmad Tibi on why he thinks democracy in Israel applies only to Jewish citizens, why he`ll never accept Israel as a Jewish state and why he`ll never leave.

Vered Luvitch - Ynet - Kam, who leaked thousands of classified military documents to journalist during her military service, is accused of possession of classified material and passing it on with intention of harming State security – offenses punishable by life in prison

Aljazeera -
"Chomsky, who opposes a general boycott of Israel, told Israel`s Haaretz newspaper that Israel`s behaviour reminded him of South Africa in the 1960s, which thought it could counter its international pariah status through better public relations."

KHALED ABU TOAMEH AND HERB KEINON -
J-lem Post -
"“We hope that the Americans will obligate the Israelis to stop the provocations, which include invasions, arrests, settlement construction and the creation of new facts on the ground."”

by Didi Remez -
Coteret
The reason that Emanuel has canceled the Torah reading at the Western Wall may be a letter that his bureau received a few months ago from right wing activists Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben Gvir, with a threat that they would take care to “blow up” the celebration. "
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by Peter Beinart -
the NYR
"Morally, American Zionism is in a downward spiral. If the leaders of groups like AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations do not change course, they will wake up one day to find a younger, Orthodox-dominated, Zionist leadership whose naked hostility to Arabs and Palestinians scares even them, and a mass of secular American Jews who range from apathetic to appalled. "

Ethan Bronner - NYT - Mark Regev, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “This was a mishap. A guy at the border overstepped his authority,” adding that if Professor Chomsky tried to enter again, he would succeed. But Chomsky said in a television interview that the Interior Ministry official who interviewed him was on the phone with other ministry officials during the several hours of questioning and that he was taking instructions from his superiors.

Or Kashti - Haaretz - Students report that the principal has said the school aims to raise the rate of students who serve in the Israel Defense Forces and that inviting the Israeli-Palestinian organization could damage this

Sirens were heard across Palestinian cities at noon on Saturday to mark the 62nd anniversary of mass forced displacement of Palestinians from their homes by pre-state Israeli militia in 1948, known as the Nakba or catastrophe.

Press release - In the Bedouin land case, the state`s expert witness, Prof. Ruth Kark, sees no need to examine the situation on the ground or meet with the Bedouin inhabitants before giving an expert opinion

This site [www.arrestblair.org] offers a reward to people attempting a peaceful citizen’s arrest of the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, for crimes against peace. Anyone attempting an arrest which meets the rules laid down here will be entitled to one quarter of the money collected at the time of his or her application (currently £10,992.95).

Ira Chernus
Tomdspatch.com
" Israel, which has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has long taken the curious stance that it neither acknowledges nor denies the massive nuclear arsenal that everyone knows it possesses. And Washington has, until now, gone along with this strange fiction which, in turn, offered an almost mind-boggling spectacle of focus and denial."

JNews Editorial - The statistics supplied by Israel to the OECD include data regarding Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territory while excluding data regarding Palestinians living in the same areas.

Michael Warschawski - Alternative Information Center - The fact that prominent Jews like Bernard Henry Levy or Daniel Cohn-Bendit have taken the decision to openly criticize an Israeli government is a strong sign of the growing isolation of Israel in the international arena and the malaise within Jewish communities.

Ian Black -
Guardain -
"Israel conspicuously refrained from retaliating for the expulsion of the Mossad officer, apparently accepting that it was no more than a slap on the wrist before a return to business as usual."

Haim Levinson - Haaretz - Bridgette Chappell, an activist with the International Solidarity Movement, arrived in Israel in August 2009 and went to live in Bir Zeit, near Ramallah. She took part in protests and was arrested in Bir Zeit at the beginning of February together with another activist, a Spanish citizen. Chappell`s lawyer, Omer Shatz, petitioned the High Court, arguing that that Israel has no jurisdiction in matters pertaining to population administration in Area A, which is under Palestinian civilian and military control, and therefore Chappell`s arrest was illegal.

Tikkun press release - By linking Rabbi Michael Lerner to alleged terrorism, they provide for themselves and other extremists a "right-wing justification" to use violence against him. This follows Lerner`s support for Goldstone in the Bar Mitzva controversy.

ISABEL KERSHNER -
NYT -
"Israel has a longstanding policy of nuclear ambiguity, neither confirming nor denying that it has nuclear weapons, though it is widely believed to have developed a large arsenal."

Ali Waked - Ynet - Left-wing US Jewish intellectual known as fierce critic of Jewish state delayed for four hours while trying to enter country through Allenby Bridge in order to deliver lecture at Birzeit University report. Interior Ministry: We`ll consider letting him speak in Ramallah. Security source: Decision made against procedures/
Dr. Norman Finkelstein: The case of Chomsky is a grave indication, among many other indications seen each day, that Israel is losing its grip on reality